Legal Help Desk

Today, Sasha Buchert, Senior Attorney at Lambda Legal, issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed Chad Readler, President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

The Veterans Administration recently announced they are considering whether to remove the categorical exclusion for transition-related health care from their medical benefits package. They have opened up the rule change for public comment, and it will be important for them to see a strong showing of support for transgender veterans. Unfortunately, at the moment, many of the comments that are being posted are uninformed, and extremely negative. We could use your help.

In a 2014 radio interview, Gordon Giampietro, one of Donald Trump’s latest judicial nominees, publicly denigrated marriage equality as “an assault on nature” that would undermine the “very idea of marriage” by reducing marriage to “the sex act.”